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:'''Pacificatori''':''Peacemakers''' A role at the Oratory in DB's day :'''Padre''':''Father'' Salesian priests do not normally use ''Padre'' in Italy, but ''Don''. DB preferred to use the term used by secular clergy rather than the term for religious priests :'''Padre e Fondatore''':''Father and Founder'' A classic phrase in reference to Don Bosco by Salesians, favoured especially by Fr Viganò and to be found in other documents (e.g. GC24). Usually capitalised and nearly always expressed as our Father and Founder :'''Padre e maestro''':''Father and teacher'' A title that was applied to DB already by Card. Cagliero in 1922 and finally 'crowned' by JPII in 1988 in his letter ''Iuvenum Patris'' where he bestowed the title of Father and Teacher of Youth on Don Bosco :'''padre, fratello, amico''':''father, brother, friend'' A trinomial that often came to DB's lips and which we retain today :'''Parola di Dio''':''Word of God'' Synonymous with the Gospel. It is God's initiative, challenge, gift. Don Bosco used the term often enough and made it prominent in his expression of his educational method. He commented that Dominic Savio had understood that the Word of God was guide for man and the way to heaven :'''parolina all'orecchio''':''word in the ear'' A simple ploy of DB's to pass on a word of comment, encouragement or even reproof in the midst of a game or other activity :'''parrocchia''':''parish'' The parish is one of the main mission settings for the Salesian mission. A Salesian parish is distinguished by its popular nature, its attention to the young. It regards the oratory/youth centre to be an integral part of its pastoral plan (R. 26) :'''parrocco''':''parish priest'' :'''partita doppia''':''double accounting'' (accounting) :'''passeggiate autunnali''':''Autumn walks'' Occurred over three or four weeks in September-October from 1847-1864. Particularly aimed at the dangers of the holiday period, but also as an opening to apostolate (the boys would do useful things and edifying things for the villages they visited) and to demonstrate how God could be served cheerfully :'''passione''':''passion'' What is of interest is the increasing importance of this term in Fr Chávez' period as Rector Major. He draws it from GC25's reference to the 'evangelical passion of the ''Da mihi animas''. The term has a long pedigree in Greek and Latin predating its Christian usage. What we need to be aware of is the 'Enlightenment' derailing of its meaning from a deep positive rage and energy which gives dynamism to the human spirit, to something much more low key, low energy by way of 'mood' :'''passività''':''liabilities'' (accounting) :'''pastorale''':''ministry'' ''Pastoral'' to be avoided especially in the phrase ''youth pastoral'', since ''pastoral'' is an adjective in English :'''pastorale giovanile PG''':''Youth Ministry YM'' One of the key sectors of the Salesian mission under the direction of a Councillor :'''pastorale giovanile salesiana''':''Salesian Youth Ministry'' :'''pastorale organico''':''integral ministry, holistic ministry, structured ministry, systematic ministry'' But NOT ''organic ministry'' which sounds like an agricultural venture! The term is relatively new in our discourse :'''pastorale vocazionale''':''vocation ministry'' :'''pastoralità''':''pastoral work'' :'''paternità''':''fatherliness'' Beware glossing as ''paternity''! Favorite term of Fr. Rinaldi, who had been a Superior for something like 48 years, so naturally enough saw Don Bosco's qualities through that prism :'''patrimonio''':''patrimony, heritage'' In English, the term ''patrimony'' is more often applied in a canonical sense to the material goods (including land, buildings) of an Institute or House. When we meet the term in Salesian literature in Italian. however, it almost always means ''heritage'' in the broad sense of values, charism. Hence we find: spiritual heritage, heritage of values, of Saleisan holiness, precious Salesian inheritance (or heritage), cultural heritage etc :'''Patroni''':''Patrons'' A role at the Oratory in DB's time, (but also refers to the patrons of the Society such as St. Joseph).... :'''peccato''':''sin'' :'''pedagogia''':''pedagogy, education'' A need for some caution when translating this word since it is more widely in use in Italian, especially in its derivatives, than in English. Frequently in English, ''pedagogia'' can be rendered by ''education'' :'''pedagogia della preghiera''':''pedagogy of prayer'' In fact there are a number of ''pedagogia di/della...'' expressions in Salesian literature, of which pedagogy of prayer is one :'''penitenza''':''penance'' When this term is encountered in Salesian discourse, at least in traditional discourse, it will almost always refer to The Sacrament of Penance (Confession, Reconciliation), and hence will be capitalised in English :'''pensionato''':''hostel'' There are several categories of Salesian hostel - junior, middle, senior, university and worker level :'''Perfectae Caritatis''':[LA] ''The Perfection of Charity'' The Decree on the adaptation and renewal of religious Life proclaimed by Pope Paul VI on October 28th 1965, at the Vatican Council II. Literally 'on the perfection of charity', a phrase which harks back to one used by St Francis de Sales :'''pericolante''':''at risk'' When DB first used it of a certain group of young people there was negative reaction. But he means those who are at risk of becoming anti-social because neglected :'''pericolanti e pericolosi''':''in danger and dangerous'' Implies youngsters without work and education,, just hanging around and exposed to problems, who could therefore be problems to society itself. The use of this terminology in a circular on 20th December 1851 caused some offence, it seems. In fact DB did not use the term ''pericolosi'' very often in this way. His view of young people was generally more positive :'''perquisizione''':''search'' The famous House Searches of the Oratory in 1860, organized by the local police, fearing that DB was involved in revolutionary tactics that might influence politics. School inspections by the Education Ministry also formed part of this intrusion :'''personal media''':''personal media'' Term introduced into Salesian discourse by GC26. In fact it came from the floor during a discussion on social communication, and was offered by a German Chapter representative. The term then found its way into the Chapter documents in a somewhat negative comment, ''La cultura della personal media può compromettere la maturazione della capacità di relazione..''. Shiregu Miyagawa, professor of linguistics and communication at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presents the concept of Personal Media thus: 'an emerging digital communications media, incorporating interactivity in its design, and allowing users not only to consume media products, but also to create them'. The discussion of personal media, then, as a formation theme, should not be limited to its negative effects, but might objectively consider several other factors: creativity, and the fact that human beings with access to personal digital devices are now creators. And perhaps the most significant issue here is to ask what personal media are in function of. They are in function of social media :'''persona umana''':'human being, person'' The term is spread evenly across the range of Salesian documentation from Vatican II onwards. Don Bosco employed the practical formula honest citizens and good Christians, where today he might have spoken of the dignity of the human person :'''pia''':''pious'' The term collocates most typically with Società as in Pia Società or the full term La Pia Società Salesiana. It was dropped from any official reference to the Salesian Society from 1926 onwards, given that by this time society was not considered to give any cause for wrong interpretation. Don Bosco used add it in to make it clear that his 'society' was not one of political or even of secret leanings, but a society interested only in good. The Superior Chapter in 1925 decided that ''Pia'' would be attached only to the ''Pia Unione dei Cooperatori Salesiani'' :'''Piano di Azione del Settore PAS''':''Sector Action Plan'' Strategic device developed by the General Council in recent years to plan activities of a Sector (e.g. Social Communications) for a six year period :'''Piano di qualificazione''':''Qualification Plan'' A plan for the formation of the formators. Referred to in the Regulations but reinforced by Fr Vecchi in his Letter Io per voi studio, For you I study. It was further reinforced by GC25 :'''Piano di Regolamento per la Casa annessa all'Oratorio di S. Francesco di Sales''':''Draft Regulations for the Annex to the Oratory of St. Francis de Sales'' First sketched out in 1853-54. Spelt out in more detail both in the short work on the Preventive System 1877 and in the Regulations for the houses of the Society of St. Francis de Sales :'''Piano Ispettoriale di Comunicazione Sociale PICS''':''Provincial Social Communication Plan PSCP'' :'''Piano Ispettoriale di Formazione PIF''':''Provincial Formation Plan PFP'' :'''piccolo clero''':''altar boys, Altar Boys Society'' :'''pie, devote, attente''':''piously, devoutly and with care'' It comes from DB's Confidential reminders to Rectors and is the third reminder: celebrate Mass and recite the Breviary ''pie, devote, attente'' :'''pietà''':''piety, deevotion'' Traditionally one of the terms that most readily distinguished the Salesian spirit from any other. Therefore the term needs to be understood in context. Part of the problem for us in English is that our piety loses much of the richness of the Latin pietas and the Italian pietà, even today. For us it is devotions - for Latin and Italian it is first of all devotion, and there lies the difference! There are practices of piety, but these are informed by true piety :'''Polaris''':''Polaris Investment S.A'' (anonymous society) A society for common Investment Funds registered in Luxemburg for the management of Common Investment Funds. Salesian involvement has ceased :'''Pontificio Ateneo Salesiano PAS''':''obs.'' ''Salesian Pontifical Athenaeum'' Now the ''Università Pontificia Salesiana, UPS'' :'''portale''':''portal'' The term is applied to the Congregation's website www.sdb.org. 'The Portal' is all that is contained within the web-space that opens up when one clicks on the address www.sdb.org :'''positio''':''dossier'' A term used in canonical processes (e.g. for approval of a Congregation, or in the process for canonisation) to indicate a collection of relevant documents, protocols. In his Don Bosco History and Spirit series, Arthur Lenti calls it a 'docket' :'''postnoviziato''':''postnovitiate'' A phase in continuity with the novitiate where one deepens one's common understanding of religious identity and takes up a preparation to be an educator and pastor. Normally at this stage candidates for Salesian priesthood and Brother candidates are to be found in the same formation community at this stage. It is worth noting that the English term postnovitiate, written as a single word, is unusual and will not normally be found in a dictionary. it would normally be hyphenated, but our Salesian literature in translation rarely hyphenates the term.(:nl:)